You Don't Need a Testimony of Plural Marriage

How did the Saints wrestle with the revelation on plural marriage in Doctrine and Covenants 132 and how can reading their own accounts inform our faith, and personal testimony?

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2021 Episode Doctrine & Covenants 129-132 Part 2
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TIMECODE:

• 00:00 Part 2 - Sister Brittany Chapman Nash
• 00:07 Don’t need to have a testimony of plural marriage
• 02:01 Context to a revelation for Emma Smith
• 05:21 Emma rejected the revelation
• 08:44 Joseph F. Smith’s statement on this section
• 11:44 Preaching publicly about this revelation
• 14:09 Section 132 would have been different if delivered to body of the Saints
• 17:26 Provenance of Section 132
• 20:19 Joseph Smith restoring patterns from previous dispensations
• 22:30 Not a statement about what God thinks about marriage
• 27:25 Some motivations for marriage
• 30:34 Pattern of women (and men) agreeing to plural marriage
• 35:08 Having increase and Abrahamic sacrifice
• 38:35 Finding peace through reading first-person accounts
• 42:10 No social or religious repercussions for those who did not practice
• 46:00 Nephi killing Laban
• 49:40 Let’s Talk About: Polygamy by Brittany Chapman Nash
• 52:27 The Saints' reception of plural marriage
• 55:33 Martha Craig Cox writing about the principle
• 58:20 Consent is an eternal principle
• 1:00:00 Reflections on living plural marriage
• 1:03:21 The results of wrestling with difficult topics
• 1:04:33 Moving forward with faith in Jesus Christ
• 1:07:19 End of Part 2 - Sister Brittany Chapman Nash
  
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Thanks to the followHIM team:
Steve & Shannon Sorensen: Cofounder, Executive Producer, Sponsor
David & Verla Sorensen: Sponsors
Dr. Hank Smith: Co-host
John Bytheway: Co-host
David Perry: Producer
Kyle Nelson: Marketing, Sponsor
Lisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show Notes
Will Stoughton: Video Editor
Krystal Roberts: Translation Team, English & French Transcripts, Website
Ariel Cuadra: Spanish Transcripts
Amelia Kabwika: Portuguese Transcripts
Heather Barlow: Communications Director
Sydney Smith: Social Media, Graphic Design
 
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